Final Reckoning: Fox News Clobbered Competitors in 2011

Fox News Channel continued to reign supreme over its cable news competitors in 2011.

With only a few days to go ’til the new year, the most current Nielsen data available shows FNC leading its closest competitors 2-1 in “total day” viewership and nearly 3-1 in prime time for the entire year.

The closest competitor, at No. 14: MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow,” which averaged 983,000 viewers nightly in ’11. The best CNN could do during the year was 17th-ranked “Anderson Cooper 360” at 10/9c with 770,000 viewers.